![]() “I ain’t gonna make it (that long) because I have been smoking since I was 10,” he said. He spoke of his family, noting how his grandma lived to be 100 and that his dad is 93. He also told plenty of intriguing stories, usually at the introduction of the song he was about to perform. You believed every word he sang - a rare treat in 2023. Mellencamp’s vocals were more gravelly than in his commercial prime, but that only seemed to heighten the authority and maturity of the lyrics. “I just played Portland a couple of nights ago,” he said. The highlight of this middle section of the show came when he played “The Eyes of Portland,” a moving new song addressing the plight of the homeless that Mellencamp wrote after visiting the Oregon city a few years back. New music: We Are Messengers, Lana Del Rey, Yazmin Lacey In all, eight of the 21 songs performed were from those two records. All of those numbers hailed from Mellencamp’s two ’80s albums - “Scarecrow” and “The Lonesome Jubilee” - which rank as the finest outings in his entire catalog. Right around 8:30 p.m., the screen lifted so that the crowd could see Mellencamp and his superb six-piece band launch into the deep cut “John Cockers” from 2008’s “Life, Death, Love and Freedom.” The star was also accompanied onstage by some creepy looking movie-star mannequins, including one that was supposed to be Brando and another that may have been Paul Newman - although, honestly, it looked as least as much like Pee-wee Herman from my vantage point.įrom that soft-sell opener, Mellencamp quickly shifted into high gear for a great three-song run through “Paper in Fire,” “Minutes to Memories” and “Small Town,” the last of which truly got the crowd in party mode. This tie-in with tour sponsor Turner Classic Movies, however, only worked moderately well, as the noise from the crowd made it really hard to hear the dialogue. ![]() That was underscored during a 30-minute opening segment where snippets from some of Mellencamp’s favorite classic films - 1954’s “On the Waterfront” and 1960’s “The Fugitive Kind,” both starring Marlon Brando - flashed on a big screen at the center of the stage. He cares a lot.Īnd he certainly cares about old movies. And he works really hard to put on a show that matters both to the audience and to the musicians onstage. ![]() His comments to the crowd on Friday - the first half of a two-night stand at the venue - made it clear just how much the art of songcraft still matters to him. He’s still championing social issues through song, both in his older numbers and in the new ones he’s been writing.
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Miley had short hair for a long time, she was playing around with deliberately "unsexy" imagery and openly admitting she was trying to actively look weird and off-putting rather than attractive, and it was kind of a known thing amid celesbian gossip folks that she was also into women even before she came out as pansexual and genderfluid - all of that on top of her slut pop era starting off with, essentially, an anthem of sexual autonomy and norm-defiance, which was a big deal in 2010 when she was marketed so aggressively during the Bush administration as a purity ring girly. Ok I went very off-topic here but I really wanted to put my thoughts in writing lol sorry Then 2020 and the pandemic came around and disco and 80s synthpop quickly became the sound, and it still is until now. I think we also had that in 2019, trap-pop was still dominant, but not as much as before and pop in the mainstream was getting "quirkier" for a lack of a better word, so I think pop music was really varied that year. But by 2015 trap-pop become huge first in the US and then everywhere next year, and that's what dominated for a quite a few years. It was really varied, some artists did Doo Woop, other did synthpop (like Taylor with 1989), then you had indiepop gaining mainstream traction. In 2013 - 2014 electropop was dying, and trap-pop was yet to really become popular, so that time was really kinda "anything goes" for pop music. I kinda love those brief in-between periods of the music industry where the previous trend is dying off and the next one is yet to surge. 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This sense of security that I have in my knife’s ability more than makes up for the little bit that sticks out of my pocket, or the grittiness that it had out of the bag (which, again, is now gone after the break in period).One more thing that I think more than makes up for its shortcomings is the Strider warranty. I like knowing that this knife will withstand a bomb and keep on coming. folderów) oraz noy z kling sta uywanych min. ![]() Specjalizuje si w wytwarzaniu noy skadanych (tzw. Przedsibiorstwo zostao utworzone w 1997 roku w przez Micka Stridera i Duanea Dwyera. I like that I reliably pry with the SnG if I was stuck in a car, or baton wood for a campfire if I ever get lost in the woods. manufaktura specjalizujca si w wytwarzaniu noy, zlokalizowana w San Marcos. I must say, though, that I think what really makes a Strider a Strider is its ability to be taken beyond what a knife should be expect to do, which is cut. Because of this, I wanted to give it a perfect score, I really did, but I had to knock it for a few things. This knife is my favorite knife I have ever owned, even over the Sebenzas and customs that I once had in my possession. I won’t complain about the thumbstuds being in an awkward place, in regards to the handle, because they are not designed to be used for opening, they are the stop pins. The blade can be flicked out of the handle with no wrist movement. Not quite the round hole that Spyderco uses, but the oval hole works just as nicely. While I don’t tend to overextend my lockbar, it is nice to have this feature. It also features Rick Hinderer’s Lockbar Stabilizer. The SnG uses Chris Reeve’s integral lock, more commonly known as a framelock. I’m no steel expert, but like the “Folding Knife Score System” stated, it is the “sweet spot” of knife steels. I have since mirror polished the edge and have gotten it to whittle hair. The edge was ground very evenly from the factory, and was shaving sharp, but not up to my (arbitrary) standards. The thick blade stock aides in all of these activities. You can pry with it, you can baton with it, and just all around abuse it. Strider touts that their knives can take abuse like no other folding knife. What this does is it gives you a very thick blade, while still having excellent cutting ability. My SnG has a 3/4 grind, meaning that the blade is left flat for about 1/4 of the blade, and hollow ground the rest of the way. It has adequate belly, and has worked for me in every instance that I needed it to. In pocket, shown in Triple Aught Design F10 NYCO Shorts It has also reduced the weight of the knife from 4.5 oz to 4.2 oz. 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